Francesco Saverio Nitti Quotes
1868–1953
Francesco Saverio Nitti (19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953) served as Prime Minister of Italy between 1919 and 1920.
Also known as: Francesco Nitti
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There is little difference between the two, and in certain respects, Fascism and Bolshevism are the same.
The doctrines held by the early Fathers of the Church on the nature of property are perfectly uniform. They almost all admit that wealth is the fruit of usurpation, and, considering the rich man as holding the patrimony of the poor, maintain that riches should only serve to relieve the indigent; to refuse to assist the poor is, consequently, worse than to rob the rich. According to the fathers, all was in common in the beginning: the distinctions mine and thine, in other words, individual property, came with the spirit of evil.
Catholic Socialism (1895)